Battlefield 3 Torrent Leak: An Inside Job?

AphexDreamer · Oct 18, 2011

Mussels said:
i looked this up on a few torrent sites, and it was worth it.

the sheer amount of posters screaming "OMG Y U NO WORK ON WIN XP" gave me some great amusement.

Only goes to show what class pirates games.

The poor of course...

Can't afford Win 7 PC can't afford games... but they still want to play em. They come off as idiots but really... they are just unfortunate.

[H]@RD5TUFF · Oct 18, 2011

AphexDreamer said:
Only goes to show what class pirates games.

The poor of course...

Can't afford Win 7 PC can't afford games... but they still want to play em. They come off as idiots but really... they are just unfortunate.

Being poor isn't an excuse for stealing.:shadedshu

AphexDreamer · Oct 18, 2011

[H]@RD5TUFF said:
Being poor isn't an excuse for stealing.:shadedshu

I suppose, but that wasn't what I was saying. I'm just saying that's why you would find a comment of someone complaining it doesn't run on XP. While I could be wrong... It does make sense to find the economically challenged running XP and bootlegging a game.

n-ster · Oct 18, 2011

And younger, non-spoiled kids... Mommy and Daddy don't buy them many games

WarraWarra · Oct 18, 2011

So they expect it to fail and so posted it on torrent sites and then claim piracy is the cause for their poor financial performance.

Very nice backup plan.

Or they know it is so good that everyone that tries it on this "unofficial demo" torrent and like it would buy it as normal torrent users do. This way they can save on distribution, get free publicity "stunt" and reach people that would never have bought it. Nothing like a scandal to get free press.

Brilliant marketing move Dice. Either way they win witch ever way the wind blows.

n-ster · Oct 18, 2011

WarraWarra said:
So they expect it to fail and so posted it on torrent sites and then claim piracy is the cause for their poor financial performance.

Very nice backup plan.

Or they know it is so good that everyone that tries it on this "unofficial demo" torrent and like it would buy it as normal torrent users do. This way they can save on distribution, get free publicity "stunt" and reach people that would never have bought it. Nothing like a scandal to get free press.

Brilliant marketing move Dice. Either way they win witch ever way the wind blows.

Or..... They didn't leak it :wtf:

It's been said that qu... I mean Larry was at fault here

But DICE probably doesn't care that much, and as you said, they can spin it to their advantage.

Fx · Oct 18, 2011

I always play SP. it is somewhat enjoyable but more importantly warms you up to the movement, abilities and feel to the game before jumping into MP

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · Oct 18, 2011

gbird said:
lol really funny. It seems the crack is up on the "Torrentz' site with instruction on how to change the Russian language to English and various links with the crack. So they say. The crackk weighs in at 52.80MB.

The additional 2.8mb is for that credential sniffing background app

LiveOrDie · Oct 18, 2011

Cool me going to use this for a 6 day early per-load HAHA.

shb- · Oct 18, 2011

Threre is no doubt that BF3 is MP oriented game (although it has SP campaign), so this leak affects nothing. Or almost nothing.

reverze · Oct 18, 2011

now even a game being on the net before official release date is news.

here is some breaking news : this has been happening since internet around *shock*

tomorrow i can read the latest apple ipad rumours on here also i bet, whatever generates traffic

Red_Machine · Oct 18, 2011

qubit said:
No doubt though, however large the profits from this game turn out to be (and they're likely to be substantial for this triple A title) the publishers will complain that they would have been even bigger without piracy, but without being able to offer any actual proof of this, of course.

So fucking true. Even though no-one can play it.

Mussels said:
i looked this up on a few torrent sites, and it was worth it.

the sheer amount of posters screaming "OMG Y U NO WORK ON WIN XP" gave me some great amusement.

LOLOLOL. Fuck Windows XP, it should have been abandoned years ago...

bogie · Oct 18, 2011

The answer for game companies is to sell the retail copy minus the .exe that you have to download on release day. This along with a doubly long cd-key should prevent most pre-release piracy.

Portal 2 via steamworks had no .exe until release day and no one was playing it before release.

Why UBI use shite DRM is beyond me. They need to look at the facts.

Can't wait for BF3 :rockout:

, I hope my Joystick works on release or i'll be doing my nut! :banghead:

Boneface · Oct 18, 2011

I would like to play the single player till kill time till game is released, or just to have the game ready to install when its time! My preorder is through gamestop/impulse and dont know if they are doing a preload.

Super XP · Oct 18, 2011

EA along with many other game companies are greedy bastards,

though I still buy the games. Don't know why people would resort to Pirated software?

silkstone · Oct 18, 2011

apparently there is a way to trick the date so you can install early. you still need a cd key to play tho.

HalfAHertz · Oct 18, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

brandonwh64 · Oct 18, 2011

Shihab · Oct 18, 2011

AphexDreamer said:
Only goes to show what class pirates games.

The poor of course...

Can't afford Win 7 PC can't afford games... but they still want to play em. They come off as idiots but really... they are just unfortunate.

Funny, I know a few pirates with SLIed 480s and i7s. ~~Hell, I'm not poor~~ Never mind, never mind !
Anyway, the word "afford" doesn't exist in pirates' dictionary. Want Win 7 ? Just google Win 7 Crack/Keygen/etc. I still remember having these pop out on top of search suggestions :rolleyes:

laszlo · Oct 18, 2011

i don't care if leaked one is working or not.

if this game won't work on xp they'll loose a lot of future buyers;when xp is still at around 50% is not normal to ignore such a big market

i have both os however many not...

Radical_Edward · Oct 18, 2011

XP is a dead horse. People need to get over that. Crap, the company I work for still has customers that use Windows 98 and they think that's the bee's knees. :shadedshu

Ahhzz · Oct 18, 2011

If it runs smooth for your needs, it IS the bee's knees...

Radical_Edward · Oct 18, 2011

Most of said customers with 98/XP that I have dealt with are the ones bringing their PC's in for virus removal, repair and what is most likely the first time being dusted out. :laugh:

Ahhzz · Oct 18, 2011

eh, I'm fond of XP, as it ran my games with less headroom than Vista (of course) or 7. Granted, the machine to run Win7 would be substantially better than a machine to run XP, I believe (altho the three I've got it on run it ok), so would have more power to game as well. I think it's a catch-22 sort of thing. You run a certain game on WinXP, and it's going to run slower on the same machine with Win 7. Move the machine up to run closer to Win 7 requirements, and the same certain game runs better. It's also part of the vicious circle that M$ has us in, of requiring new hardware to run the new software, and then changing the hardware requirements due to a newer "improved" version., etc, ad nauseum.... Welcome to capitalism, right?

DigitalUK · Oct 18, 2011

anyone with the hardware to play BF3 properly would never be on xp now.

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